Dead Rat Orchestra

Drawing on post-rock and improv as much as folk music, building tracks from haunted violin strains or the tinkling of flung metal and using the phonofiddle and the meat cleaver as well as the ukulele or the bells, DRO are among London's most fascinating bands. Their debut album, 'The Guga Hunters of Ness', was a soundtrack to a BBC documentary about the fading tradition of the annual Gannet Hunt off the Western Isles of Scotland, and here they're playing the first date on a tour of the UK that'll see them travel almost 300 miles by canal.